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Touching Hope: How Greek Verbs Shape a Miracle
ἔλεγεν γὰρ ἐν ἑαυτῇ ὅτι Ἐὰν ἅψωμαι κἂν τῶν ἱματίων αὐτοῦ, σωθήσομαι. (Mark 5:28)
She kept saying to herself, “If I might touch even his garments, I shall be saved.”
Unfolding the Verbal HeartbeatMark 5:28 offers a glimpse into the inner voice of a woman clinging to hope. The verse is brief, yet pulsing with rich verb forms that convey intensity, determination, and theology in motion. In this sacred sentence, three verbs animate her desperate faith:
ἔλεγεν — imperfect indicative, showing repeated thought ἅψωμαι — aorist subjunctive, conveying decisive intention σωθήσομαι — future passive indicative, expressing her expected salvationEach form reveals a layer of meaning not just in what she says, but in how Greek morphology conveys her mindset and theology.… Learn Koine Greek